We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

What's the point of living if you don't feel alive?

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.